Wilhelm Klatte
Wilhelm Klatte (13 February 1870 – 25 July 1930) was a German music theoretician, pedagogue, journalist and conductor.
Born in Bremen, after studying music in Leipzig, Klatte began his professional career as a musician first at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar with Richard Strauss.
From 1904 Klatte also taught music theory at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where he was appointed professor in 1919.
Since 1925 he had also held a teaching position for theory at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (from 1909) and representative of the musical arts in the Vorläufiger Reichswirtschaftsrat [de] (from 1925).
Certificate of the
Stern Conservatory
from the year 1920 with the signature of Wilhelm Klatte (right)